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I want the project to feel special, and I feel like too many people have built Brambles (pi clusters) for the project to have that sort of *wow* factor to it. I had originally wanted to use the Teensy 4.0's but there were way too many hoops to get through for that to be realistic. (here is a link to that forum post https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/57941-A-Beowulf-Cluster-of-Teensy-4-0-s ) Also, I might be tempted to skip out on running it headless, and just use a monitor. I know myself well enough to know that if presented with the option, I will take the easy way out.

Hello all, I want to build a single-board cluster for educational reasons, but I just don't want to use raspberry pis. I like the idea of using the ODROID-MC1's, but I think it would be cool to use PoE for it. Now of course, this is not a cost-efficient project, but I also don't want to destroy my fund (about $1700) in the process. I wanted to use 12 mc1 boards. The power needed is 5V/4A, and I need 12 (not including my NAS or master node) of those if I were power these by conventional means (5V 60A 300W Power Supply plus adapters). My question to all of you is: can I use PoE for this project and cut out the power supply, or should I just stick to having that extra hardware and wire chaos. If so, is there a switch that can handle the load these boards need? Can these boards even support PoE? If the PoE is an option but the boards are not, is there another board I could use that DOES have PoE capabilities? Bonus question: Anyone got some cool ideas for a name for this cluster?